The Skillful Leader III: Strengthening Teacher Evaluation: Taking Action to Improve Ineffective Teaching

From the lead authors of The Skillful Leader series, this work serves as a how-to handbook to accompany the best selling The Skillful Leader: Confronting Mediocre Teaching, with over 55,000 in circulation. Like its predecessor, the book offers dozens of illustrations, new cases, and sample documents plus legal advice to help you confront ineffective instruction. It is a cover-to-cover guide for solving thorny teacher performance problems. Highlights include how to:

• Use strategies for early intervention, support, and remediation
• Write a negative evaluation
• Escalate communication about teacher performance issues
• Craft high-leverage improvement plans
• Use student performance measures responsibly

A must for administrators and teacher leaders.

About The Authors:
Alexander D. Platt, Ed.D. is a founding and senior consultant with Boston-based consulting firm Research for Better Teaching (RBT). In 2000 he founded Ready About Consulting, dedicated to working with leaders of underperforming schools. He specializes in coaching urban principals on raising the quality of instruction through supervision and has presented at many national conferences and institutes including the Harvard Institute for School Leaders and the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA). He has taught long-term supervision and evaluation courses to over two thousand administrators in the United States, and to administrators in Europe and Japan. Dr. Platt has been an Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum in the Wayland (MA) Public Schools, a leadership consultant to NESDEC (New England School Development Council), and has served as President of the Massachusetts Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (MASCD). He is the lead author on the best-selling book, The Skillful Leader: Confronting Mediocre Teaching.

Caroline E. Tripp, Ed.D. is a consultant with Research for Better Teaching (RBT) and a member of the faculty of the Boston Principal Fellows program. She specializes in helping districts build effective administration teams, designing and implementing supervision and evaluation systems for teachers and administrators, and supporting the development of new administrators. For the past nine years, Dr. Tripp has been the director of curriculum and training for RBT’s joint project on workplace excellence with the Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools. Caroline is a former lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Assistant Superintendent of the Shrewsbury, MA, Public Schools. She has presented nationally on a wide range of topics related to teacher quality and leadership development and is a co-author of The Skillful Leader: Confronting Mediocre Teaching.